Etymograph

English

adverbophobia

From adverb + -o- + -phobia.

Formed from adverb + -o- + -phobia

Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to speak, say’

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Proto-Italic *werðom ‘word’

Latin verbum ‘word, verb’

Latin adverbium

French adverbe

English adverb

Today it means

noun An excessive aversion to the use of adverbs, especially in writing literature.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / adverbophobia